Biography Frederick Harer

A painter, sculptor, etcher, craftsman, and framemaker, Frederick Harer was the son of a successful furniture maker in Blassberg, Pennsylvania, who, upon his death, left his tools to his son. Harer traveled extensivley, and his work and design was heavily influenced by Spain and the West Indies.

He was a student of the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Arts and the Pennsylvania Academy where his teachers were Thomas Anshutz and William Merritt Chase.

He exhibited at the National Academy of Design, the Pennsylvania Academy and was a teacher and mentor to artist Ben Badura.
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